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Sunday, September 09, 2012

Tackling my TBR pile

Have you set yourself a reading goal on GoodReads? Do you check your progress as obsessively as I check mine? Currently (and as I schedule most posts in advance, this number will have changed!), I am a whopping 12 books behind my target of 225 books read this year. And what's worse, I have eleventy billion books waiting patiently to be read on my shelves. My bookcases are absolutely teeming with wonderful books.

As for my reading goal, I was on target until the beginning of the summer where everything went a bit downhill with a university assignment, my birthday, a holiday, Olympics madness, etc. My lowest point was being 16 books behind target, but I have managed to slowly ease my way out of that over the last week or so. While sometimes I enjoy reading a longer book over the summer holidays where I have more time to sink into a story and really appreciate a longer story, other summers, like this one, my concentration levels are at zero. My mind wanders, I pick up a book, read a few pages and then feel restless and wonder what else I could be reading instead.

So what I've done to tackle both issues is that I've picked this massive pile of books, all of which I'm quite interested in reading. And as a bonus, they are all around about 250 pages or a book that I think I will get through get quickly.

Fly on the Wall by E Lockhart
Mockingbird by Kathyn Erskine
Silenced by Simon Packham
Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick
Paparazzi Princess by Cathy Hopkins
Shooting Stars by Allison Rushby
Dash and Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
The Alchemy of Forever by Avery Williams
A Little Wanting Song by Cath Crowley
Invincible Summer by Hannah Moskowitz
Shut Out by Kody Keplinger
The Swan Kingdom by Zoe Marriott

Blackwatch by Jenna Burtenshaw
Scars by Cheryl Rainfield
The Hostage by Sophie McKenzie
Airhead: Runaway by Meg Cabot
There Is No Dog by Meg Rosoff
Lottie Biggs Is Not Tragic by Hayley Long
Prom and Prejudice by Elizabeth Eulberg
My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece by Annabel Pitcher
Saving Zoe by Alyson Noel
The Lone-Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
Love and other Drama-ramas by Sarah Webb

Do you have this same problem? Have you read any of these books? Where should I start?

You've got some of my favourite books there! Fly on the Wall, Airhead, Dash & Lily... That's where I'd start, seeing as I've read those three more than once. ;)Oh, and Silenced is brilliant, and so is A Little Wanting Song, and so many others on your list.Happy reading! I can't wait to hear your thoughts on the books you choose.

Wow!!! You have some great books that I'm dying to read! The only one I have three out of that long list of books: Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine, My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece by Annabel Pitcher and The Hostage by Sophie McKenzie..They were all good but I have to admit that Fly On The Wall captured my attention as soon as I read the blurb on Goodreads..lol..I would gravitate towards that one first or maybe Shooting Stars?...I like photography though so that might explain why.! If you hop over to my Showcase Sunday today you'll see how many books I am behind on but not as many as you I don't think!Happy Reading!http://ebonyblacklines.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/showcase-sunday-1-i-requested-too-many.html

From thos that I've read & for good and quick reads, I'd recommend My Sister Lives On the Mantelpiece or Silenced. Never Fall Down might be a longer read than you think: you might have to keep breaking from it to collect yourself! (but it is very good). Little M loves Sophie McKenzie and she's been whizzing through the Medusa Project series this past week - so they're very quick. Enjoy your deliberating before your reading :)

Wow! This is a great challenge, Clover! I have There Is No Dog on my TBR pile too, so it will be great to see what you think of it. :) Mockingbird, Saving Zoe, Airhead, Prom and Prejudice and My Sister Lives on the Mantlepeice all look amazing. I have read The Hostage and loved it, Sophie McKenzie is great :)Good luck, and happy reading!